HP-UX: Adding a new disk that is part of a Physical Volume Group (PVG)

root@hpux:~ # vgdisplay -v vgLP0data
— Volume groups —
VG Name /dev/vgLP0data
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available, exclusive
Max LV 2047
Cur LV 7
Open LV 7
Cur Snapshot LV 0
Max PV 2048
Cur PV 7
Act PV 7
Max PE per PV 447994
VGDA 14
PE Size (Mbytes) 32
Unshare unit size (Kbytes) 1024
Total PE 447993
Alloc PE 447986
Current pre-allocated PE 0
Free PE 7
Total PVG 1
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0
VG Version 2.2
VG Max Size 14335819m
VG Max Extents 447994
Cur Snapshot Capacity 0p
Max Snapshot Capacity 14335819m

— Logical volumes —
LV Name /dev/vgLP0data/lvsapdata1
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2047936
Current LE 63998
Allocated PE 63998
Used PV 7

LV Name /dev/vgLP0data/lvsapdata2
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2047936
Current LE 63998
Allocated PE 63998
Used PV 7

LV Name /dev/vgLP0data/lvsapdata3
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2047936
Current LE 63998
Allocated PE 63998
Used PV 7

LV Name /dev/vgLP0data/lvsapdata4
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2047936
Current LE 63998
Allocated PE 63998
Used PV 7

LV Name /dev/vgLP0data/lvsapdata5
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2047936
Current LE 63998
Allocated PE 63998
Used PV 7

LV Name /dev/vgLP0data/lvsapdata6
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2047936
Current LE 63998
Allocated PE 63998
Used PV 7

LV Name /dev/vgLP0data/lvsapdata7
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2047936
Current LE 63998
Allocated PE 63998
Used PV 7

— Physical volumes —
PV Name /dev/disk/disk949
PV Status available
Total PE 63999
Free PE 0
Current pre-allocated PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/disk/disk950
PV Status available
Total PE 63999
Free PE 0
Current pre-allocated PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/disk/disk951
PV Status available
Total PE 63999
Free PE 0
Current pre-allocated PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/disk/disk952
PV Status available
Total PE 63999
Free PE 0
Current pre-allocated PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/disk/disk953
PV Status available
Total PE 63999
Free PE 2
Current pre-allocated PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/disk/disk954
PV Status available
Total PE 63999
Free PE 2
Current pre-allocated PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/disk/disk955
PV Status available
Total PE 63999
Free PE 3
Current pre-allocated PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

— Physical volume groups —
PVG Name pvgLP0data
PV Name /dev/disk/disk949
PV Name /dev/disk/disk950
PV Name /dev/disk/disk951
PV Name /dev/disk/disk952
PV Name /dev/disk/disk953
PV Name /dev/disk/disk954
PV Name /dev/disk/disk955

Add the disk to LVM

root@hpux:~ # pvcreate /dev/rdisk/disk670
Physical volume “/dev/rdisk/disk670” has been successfully created.

Add the disk to volume group and add the flag -g to add to PVG section

root@hpux:~ # vgextend -g pvgLP0data vgLP0data /dev/disk/disk670
Volume group “vgLP0data” has been successfully extended.
Physical volume group “pvgLP0data” has been successfully extended.
Volume Group configuration for /dev/vgLP0data has been saved in /etc/lvmconf/vgLP0data.conf

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